Name a Valid World City

Can you name any urban area with a population of at least one million that fits each category?

According to citypopulation.de, January 2021

We exclude the Rhine-Ruhr in this quiz because of its loose definition

Also try Name a Valid U.S. City

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Name a valid city ...	Cities
with a GDP greater than one trillion	Tokyo \| New York City \| Los Angeles
on the Danube River	Budapest \| Vienna \| Belgrade
in Nigeria	Lagos \| Kano \| Ibadan \| Abuja \| Port Harcourt \| Kaduna \| + 9 others
with a population greater than 25 million, and not a world capital	Guangzhou \| Shanghai \| Mumbai
that is the capital of a STAN country	Kabul \| Islamabad \| Tashkent \| Ashgabat \| Astana \| + 2 others
north of 57 °N	Helsinki \| St. Petersburg \| Oslo \| Stockholm \| Perm
in India, with a population between 1 million and 5 million	Jaipur \| Lucknow \| Kanpur \| Nagpur \| Bhilai \| Coimbatore \| + 41 others
whose name ends in JING	Beijing \| Nanjing
in Australia, not Sydney or Melbourne	Brisbane \| Perth \| Adelaide
whose name ends in BURG	Johannesburg \| St. Petersburg \| Hamburg \| Yekaterinburg \| Harrisburg
in South America, within 20 km of the Pacific	Lima \| Guayaquil \| Valparaiso
whose name begins with the letter O	Osaka \| Orlando \| Ouagadougou \| Okayama \| Oran \| + 6 others
within 50 km of the U.S. / Mexico border	San Diego \| Tijuana \| Ciudad Juarez \| McAllen \| El Paso
where Swahili is a lingua franca	Dar es Salaam \| Nairobi \| Kampala \| Mombasa \| Kigali
that hosted the Olympics before WWI	London \| Paris \| Athens \| St. Louis \| Stockholm
in Asia, and with > 12 million tourists in 2016	Bangkok \| Dubai \| Singapore \| Kuala Lumpur
with an elevation of at least 2500 meters	La Paz \| Quito \| Bogotá \| Cochabamba \| Addis Ababa
in Mexico, other than Mexico City	Guadalajara \| Monterrey \| Puebla \| Toluca \| Tijuana \| Léon \| + 9 others
in Iran, other than Tehran	Isfahan \| Mashhad \| Tabriz \| Shiraz \| Ahvaz \| Qom \| Kermanshah
that is one of the 10 most bike-friendly cities	Paris \| Amsterdam \| Vienna \| Copenhagen \| Helsinki \| + 3 others

Level 65

Aug 4, 2020

Great quiz!

Level 95

Aug 4, 2020

Brilliant quiz, as ever!

Level 85

Aug 4, 2020

*within 50 km of the U.S. / Mexico border

+12

Level 72

Aug 4, 2020

The Mexican answers for 'within 50 km of the U.S. / Mexico border' give away answers for the Cities in Mexico clue, so maybe one of these should be changed?

+23

Level 84

Aug 4, 2020

After all these years on JetPunk, I still only remember 1 city in Iran. SMH.

Level 76

Aug 6, 2020

I remember two. It was useful.

Level 84

Aug 12, 2020

I can remember Fez, but yeah, only 2.

+40

Level 71

Sep 10, 2020

Fez is in Morocco

Level 79

Sep 29, 2020

one is a nice wine grape. I remember that one.

Level 58

Aug 4, 2022

I know there is a city that starts with "is" but I can never remember its name

Level 48

Feb 15, 2023

Isfahan?

Level 69

Aug 5, 2020

Great Quiz! Could you accept Reykjavik, Iceland for the north of 57 degrees latitude? It sits at about 64 degrees.

+37

Level 90

Aug 5, 2020

When there are fewer than 400K people in the entire country it's kind of hard to have a million people in one city; even it's biggest one.

+17

Level 68

Jan 7, 2021

Obviously Reykjavik has a population of 2.5 people per person

Level 73

Jan 24, 2024

Highest density per person of any country in the world.

Level 90

Aug 5, 2020

Really liked the quiz. Shocked that Harrisburg with a city proper population of around 50k makes the list. There are more people in Lancaster and slightly more people than York. But the designations in Pennsylvania don't make much sense to me a anyway. Still don't understand how Scranton and Wilkes Barre should be part of the same metro area. Not when you drive through 10 to 15 miles of farmland on major highways to get to the other.

Level 75

Aug 6, 2020

It really does not make much sense. I agree that they do not deserve to be grouped together.

Level 71

Oct 10, 2020

Agreed, but also what are you using to measure this? The top of the quiz says "urban area." When I go to the source you use, I find that the "Metropolitan Statistical Area" is well under 1 million (577,941) but the "Combined Statistical Area" (which is basically half of southeastern PA) is just over a million. I'm not really sure what the difference is and how each definition fits into the idea of "urban area," so if someone explained this that would be great!

Level 78

Oct 10, 2020

Scranton and Wilkes-Barre may look like they are a decent distance apart, but city-center to city-center of the two is only 18.5 miles driving. You also can't tell when the suburbs of one end and the suburbs of the other begin. Cleveland is 30 miles from Elyria and 25 from Mentor and are in the same metro area while Elyria and Mentor are basically suburbs of Cleveland. San Francisco is 12 miles from Oakland and 48 miles from San Jose and are all in the same metro area.

Level 60

Aug 5, 2020

What about Canberra?

Level 55

Aug 5, 2020

I wonder the same thing as well...

Level 70

Aug 5, 2020

Canberra has a very modest population with no more than half a million people.

Level 75

Aug 6, 2020

Apparently with less than Harrisburg. Kinda ridiculous. I drove through Harrisburg yesterday and its barely there with basically no suburbs except entities pretty far away that are completely distinct.

Level 82

Aug 5, 2020

easy

Level 71

Aug 6, 2020

Zahedan ..... over 600,000 people, railway to Pakistan.

Level 76

Aug 6, 2020

Spelling: Within 50 km of the U.S. / Mexico border

Level 68

Aug 6, 2020

100%! Shiraz coming in clutch at the end!

Level 73

Aug 10, 2020

Great quiz; however, it was a bit on the easier side. I'd say make the quiz a bit more difficult

Level 59

Sep 17, 2020

What do you know, St. Louis hosted the Olympics that long ago...

Level 58

Oct 10, 2020

hey multiple test takers skewing the results

Level 68

Oct 10, 2020

18/20, somehow missed the Jing question. Also missed the Indian cities question, which didn't surprise me though. Only know the biggest Indian cities.

Level 46

Oct 10, 2020

Excellent quiz!

Level 76

Oct 10, 2020

See this video for an actual comparison of cycling between Copenhagen and Amsterdam. TL;DW that list is nonsense.

Level 66

Oct 12, 2020

There should only be Dutch cities on it but people from outside the Netherlands only know Amsterdam and think the Netherlands is only Amsterdam. Number one should be going to a city like Groningen. The real bike capital of the world.

Level 75

Oct 10, 2020

Isn't the thumbnail picture of Miyajima? It's pretty close to Hiroshima, but definitely not in it (and it's an island) and definitely not a city. (Then again, if the Japanese government measures Okayama at over 2 million people, who knows where Hiroshima ends.) Another point - purely anecdotal evidence, but I'd say that hardly anyone in Kigali speaks Swahili. I didn't know any Kinyarwanda and got nowhere with Swahili. If I remember right, it wasn't all that much more useful in Kampala as well. Do Goma and Bukavu reach the population threshold? If so, they'd be better bets, I'd think.

Level 59

Nov 4, 2020

Good quiz but too many answers are missing. Reykjavic for the 57 north question and Salzburg for the BURG question for example.

Level 75

Nov 4, 2020

Those cities are too small to be on the quiz.

Level 72

Mar 31, 2021

Ugh I kept reading the question as "less than 12 million tourists in 2016" instead of "more than." Took me forever to figure out my mistake.

Level 83

Aug 24, 2021

Does anyone know if pilgrims are counted as tourists, and if places like Jerusalem or Mecca might host > 12 million annually?